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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

sagitta

an arrow: cf. F.

sagittal

Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

(Anat.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal;

as, the

sagittal

furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull

(b)

In the mesial plane; mesial;

as, a

sagittal

section of an animal

Sagittal suture

(Anat.)

the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; – called also

rabdoidal suture

, and

interparietal suture

Adj.

[L. sagittalis, from sagitta, an arrow; that which is thrown or driven, probably from the root of say and sing.]

Pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; as sagittal bars of yellow.

In anatomy, the sagittal suture is the suture which unites the parietal bones of the skull.